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In the News (Thu 24 Dec 09)

  
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Gamow released a theory titled "Space - the Big Ball of Fire." Gamow's theory proposed that space initially expanded through extreme heat and pressure, then cooled down.
Gamow surmised that the goal for scientists was to learn how a long sequence of 4 nucleotides determines the assignment of long protein sequences composed of 20 amino acids.
Bethe's model of the stars was formulated so that heat and radiation is generated in the cores of stars (thermonuclear reactions), and postulated that a star heats up -rather than cools down as i "fuel" is consumed.
medlem.spray.se /gamow/georgegamow.html

  
 gamow.html
Gamow, however, modified these theories and named his version the "big bang." He and Ralph Alpher published this theory in a paper called "The Origin of Chemical Elements" (1948).
Gamow and Teller were both proponents of the expanding-universe theory that had been advanced by Friedmann, Edwin Hubble, and Georges LeMaître.
Gamow attended Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) University, where he studied briefly with A.A. Friedmann, a mathematician and cosmologist who suggested that the universe should be expanding.
www.phy.bg.ac.yu /web_projects/giants/gamow.html

  
 George Gamow definition - info description meaning
Gamow introduced me to the wonders of science - everything from Fermat's last theorem to the theory of relativity to the stars and galaxies and atoms and electrons.
Gamow was referred to by a journalist, some time during the Cold War, as "the only scientist in America with a real sense of humor".
Gamow's list of scientific accomplishments includes a 1948 landmark paper on the origin of chemical elements, the Big Bang model, and later work with F. Crick on DNA and genetic coding.-- Do more Gamow editions, Dover!
www.definition-info.com /George_Gamow.html

  
 l12S12
He estimated that the temperature of the radiation today would be about 25 K. Hayashi pointed out that Gamow's original theory was flawed.
Gamow realized that the universe at that time must be filled with radiation at temperature of billions of degrees; otherwise nuclear reactions would convert all the hydrogen in the universe to helium and other heavy elements, in contradiction with observations.
Gamow also realized that this radiation would cool as the universe expanded.
cosmos.colorado.edu /cw2/courses/astr1020/text/chapter12/l12S12.htm

  
 Discover: The Last Big Bang Man Left Standing - physicist Ralph Alpher devised Big Bang Theory of universe
Alpher and Gamow focused on the point when the universe had cooled to a state consisting of radiation and matter, ylem, Greek for the primordial stuff of life.
Back in 1948, Alpher wrote a Ph.D. dissertation that gave birth to the scientific theory known as the Big Bang.
Alpher's immigrant father is a home builder in Washington, D.C., at a time when no one can afford to buy a house.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1511/is_7_20/ai_55030837

  
 Gamow, George
Gamow's theory was found to be correct in 1961.
Gamow predicted that the electromagnetic radiation left over from the universe's formation should, after having cooled down during the subsequent expansion of the universe, manifest itself as a microwave cosmic background radiation.
Gamow's model of alpha decay 1928 represented the first application of quantum mechanics to the study of nuclear structure.
www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/G/Gamow/1.html

  
 The Big Bang Theory
Gamow's idea was re-examined by Bob Dicke and Jim Peebles at Princeton University.
This theory became a more thorough, but more complex, replacement for Newton's Theory of Gravity.
Much of Gamow's early work was forgotten perhaps because of Gamow's sense of humour.
www.schoolsobservatory.org.uk /study/sci/cosmo/internal/bigbang.htm

  
 Inflation for Beginners #2
It was that of George Gamow, a Russian emigre scientist who almost single-handedly invented the hot Big Bang theory, more than half a century ago.
Gamow's team predicted, almost fifty years ago, that the Universe must be filled with radiation left over from the Big Bang, cooled all the way down to about 5 K. The radiation would be in the form of microwaves, just like those used in radar or in a microwave oven.
Gamow died in 1968, ten years before the Nobel Committee gave their award for physics to Penzias and Wilson.
www.biols.susx.ac.uk /Home/John_Gribbin/pgir.htm

  
 Quark Soup
This was signed Alpher, Bethe, and Gamow, and is often referred to as the 'alphabetical article.' It seemed unfair to the Greek alphabet to have the article signed by Alpher and Gamow only, and so the name of Dr. Hans A. Bethe (_in absentia_) was inserted in preparing the manuscript for print.
When George Gamow wrote a paper with Ralph Alpher, Gamow went ahead and, unbeknowst to Hans Bethe (whose name is pronounced something like "Beta," added his name to the paper.
There was, however, a rumor that later, when the alpha, beta, gamma theory went temporarily on the rocks, Dr. Bethe seriously considered changing his name to Zacharias.
www.davidappell.com /archives/00000143.htm

  
 Getting a Bang out of Gamow
The first announcement of the consequences of Gamow and Alpher's development of the big bang theory of the early universe came in "The Origin of Chemical Elements" (Physical Review, April 1, 1948), one of the most celebrated papers in modem scientific literature.
Gamow, his former student at GW, Ralph Alpher, and their long-time colleague Robert Herman were the first to systematically develop the physical aspects of the cosmological theories of the Russian mathematician Alexander Friedmann and the Belgian cosmologist George Lemaitre.
In addition to developing the big bang theory of the expanding universe, Gamow made enormous contributions to the understanding of the nucleus of the atom, the activity of stars, the creation of the elements, and the genetic code of life.
www.gwu.edu /~physics/gwmageh.htm

  
 Hayashi, Chushiro (1920-)
In 1950 he was the first to offer a variant of the hot Big Bang model as put forward in 1946 by George Gamow and colleagues in the famous "Alpher-Bethe-Gamow" theory.
He is best remembered, however, for his discovery of the almost temperature-independent early evolution of pre-main-sequence stars along what has become known as the Hayashi track.
A Japanese astrophysicist at Kyoto University who has done important work on the early evolution of stars and of the universe.
www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/H/Hayashi.html

  
 April 1, 1952 in History
Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe and Gamow
Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.
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www.brainyhistory.com /events/1952/april_1_1952_113406.html

  
 [Python-Dev] Feedback on new floating point info in tutorial
(Gamow being one of the three involved in the famously named Alpher-Bethe-Gamow theory of the origin of the elements (the real names of the authors being a play on the first three letters of the greek alphabet).) Sorry, not sure what this has to do with Python....
George Gamow wrote a book titled "One Two Three...
Next message: metaclasses -- aka Don Beaudry hook/hack (was RE: Why should i use python if i can use java)
mail.python.org /pipermail/python-list/2001-June/047933.html

  
 Quiz #133 - Srinivas
According to the Alpher, Bethe and Gamow's theory, also called the alpha-beta-gamma theory, the early stage of world was a hot,dense ball of matter.
Frank Lyoyd Wright studied under him between 1887-1893, and called him "THE MASTER".Who's this master's Master?
www.kcircle.com /q133a.html

  
 The Science Bookstore - Books
Alpher, Ralph; George Gamow [& Hans Bethe, for the fictionalized and latinized use of his name only].
In his three voyages during 1698-1701, Halley was to test his magnetic variation theory, after which he was to become a professor of Geometry at Oxford.
Discovery of Oxygen in the Sun by Photography and a New Theory of the Solar Spectrum..
www.thesciencebookstore.com /bookmain.asp?bookcat=Astronomy

  
 alpha equation
Alioth -- Alkaid -- Al-Khwarizmi -- Allegheny Observatory -- Almach -- Almagest -- Alnilam -- Alnitak -- Alniyat -- Alpha Centauri -- Alpha Centauri B -- Alpha particle -- Alpha Persei -- Alpha process -- Alpher-Bethe-Gamow theory --...
www.solutionsellinggroup.com /alpha-equation.html

  
 The Xerox Effect on the Importance of Pre-Biotic Evolution by Howard Bloom
Modern Big Bang Theory was introduced in: George Gamow, Ralph Alpher, and H. Bethe (1948).
Just like every scientific concept, including evolution, Big Bang theory remains a hypothesis subject to continual testing and dispute.
All paid tribute to a dead-ringer-generating, identimorphic process of uncanny precision, a process churning out the very same pattern almost everyplace there was a place to be.
www.bigbangtango.org /website/Xerox/Xerox.htm

  
 Science Timeline
Alpher, Ralph A., Hans Bethe, and George Gamow.
Burnet, F. "A modification of Jerne's theory of antibody production using the concept of clonal selection." In Australian Journal of Science.
Compton, A. "A quantum theory of the scattering of X-rays by light elements." In Physical Review.
www.sciencetimeline.net /bibliography.htm

  
 Citations: The origin of chemical elements - Alpher, Bethe, Gamow (ResearchIndex)
The third author is George Gamow, the Ukranian born nuclear physicist and cosmologist who also made contributions to modern genetic theory; the first author is Ralph Alpher, one of his....
Alpher, H. Bethe & G. Gamow, The origin of chemical elements, Phys.
Citations: The origin of chemical elements - Alpher, Bethe, Gamow (ResearchIndex)
citeseer.ist.psu.edu /context/1526553/0   (290 words)

  
 00741.html
This was the 'alpha, beta, gamma' theory by Alpher, Bethe and Gamow.
In 1948 he, with Ralph Asher Alpher and Hans Bethe proposed a theory about the early universe.
Did anyone say physicists had no sense of humour?
psioneering.co.uk /digests/00741.html   (290 words)

  
 Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics » Alpher, Ralph Asher (1921–)
With HANS BETHE and GEORGE GAMOW, he proposed in 1948 the `alpha-beta-gamma' theory of the creation of the elements by successive addition of nucleons to hydrogen to build up the periodic table (the alpha part of the name of the theory referred to Alpher).
Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics » Alpher, Ralph Asher (1921–)
This idea, subsequently shown by MARGARET BURBIDGE, Geoffery Burbidge, WILLIAM FOWLER and FRED HOYLE to be...
dx.doi.org /10.1888/0333750888/3421   (290 words)

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